Region's parks underfunded by Legacy Act program
MANKATO — Created to ensure the Twin Cities metro area doesn't hog an unfair share of the Legacy Act sales tax proceeds, the Greater Minnesota Park...
MANKATO — Created to ensure the Twin Cities metro area doesn't hog an unfair share of the Legacy Act sales tax proceeds, the Greater Minnesota Parks and Trails Commission has distributed more than $72 million to municipal and county-owned outdoors areas in outstate Minnesota since 2016. But no place has received a smaller cut of the funds than the Mankato area. The commission distributes funds to nonstate parks and trails in the 80 counties outside the Metro area. The outstate counties are categorized into six districts, with Mankato and surrounding counties in District 5.